From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 10 21:47:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76EA037B401 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 21:47:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1B5lCW19494; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 22:47:12 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200102110547.f1B5lCW19494@harmony.village.org> To: kstewart@urx.com Subject: Re: buildkernel errors Cc: Matthew Emmerton , "Mars G.Miro" , Dima Dorfman , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Feb 2001 11:42:41 PST." <3A7F0231.37A1FCC8@urx.com> References: <3A7F0231.37A1FCC8@urx.com> <20010205083525.EA8013E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org> <01020516431701.10140@hellraiser.cannoncreek.com> <008501c08f95$33bd0aa0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 22:47:12 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3A7F0231.37A1FCC8@urx.com> Kent Stewart writes: : If you had done this last night while ng_base.c was broken, you would : have ended up with an installed 4 Feb user land and a bad kernel. The : buildkernel and installkernel was intended to bootstrap across things : like compilers being upgraded or new binutils. It also puts off the : installs until everything will build. Actually, buildkernel is supposed to be a "always safe" target. It has the nice side effect of always working accross compiler/binutil upgrades. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message